TL;DR: In this article, two residential buildings with different levels of insulation and air-tightness have been modelled to assess the potential of buildings to modulate the heating power and define simple control strategies to exploit the flexibility potential considering both energy and thermal comfort.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed heat pumps with radiators or underfloor heating distribution systems coupled with thermal energy storage (TES) with a view to showing how a heat pump system behaves and how it influences the building occupants' thermal comfort under a DSM strategy designed to flatten the shape of the electricity load curve by switching off the heat pump during peak hours.
TL;DR: In this article, a 3D model relating to building architecture, occupancy, and HVAC operation was developed and two levels of calibration were applied in order to insure accuracy and reduce the likelihood of errors.
TL;DR: In this paper, phase change materials (PCM) can be incorporated into various building components to increase their thermal mass to reduce energy consumption and to perform peak load shifting, and the results showed the benefits of PCM when incorporated in walls, ceiling, and in combination with PCM underfloor heating system using two different types of PCMs.
TL;DR: In this article, the application of phase change material in the form of DuPont Energain ® wallboards in combination with an underfloor heating system incorporating phase change materials was investigated.